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From the text ... 'A new age of forestry is needed in the United States. Recent dramatic declines in forest management have brought some undesirable consequences for forest health and wildlife.... A total preservationist approach to management has become increasingly prevalent. While appealing on the surface, this is not tenable in the long term because it will not protect forests, retain biodiversity, and provide some wood products over time.A return to a totally economic-driven forestry is also not viable....The key to overall biodiversity will be creating and maintaining both younger early successional and late-successional forest stands.... Our per-capita wood consumption rate is the highest in the world -- and rising.... When we import wood products, we export not only environmental consequences but jobs and dollars.'
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- fire management
- fire suppression
- forest management
- forest products
- logging
- old growth forests
- succession
- wildfires
- wildlife
- wildlife habitat management
- wood
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